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Nottingham Forest 1 Wolves 1 - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah analysis

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00:00Hello, I'm Nathan Tudor, I'm here with Wolves reporter, here's Mr Liam Keane. Liam, Nottingham

00:13Forest won, Wolverhampton won, first point of the season, hanging on a little bit towards

00:18the end, you've got to say, but at least they've got the first point of the season.

00:22Yeah, I think we discussed it just up there a second ago, I feel like Wolves will probably

00:25be happier with that point than Forest will be, on the balance of the game, albeit, Forest

00:30didn't create a lot of clear cut chances, and the ones they did, obviously scored one,

00:33and Wolves managed to deal with the others. Sam Johnson made quite a good save from a

00:38wood header in that second half as well. So, yeah, I think Wolves will be slightly happier

00:42because they had to survive a bit of an onslaught. A couple of names to mention, Sameda, before

00:46he came off with cramp, did very, very well I thought, and Craig Dawson, who played the

00:4990 minutes today, was probably Wolves' best player, I thought he was excellent. And particularly

00:53in those last few minutes, you need someone with a bit of a presence, a leader, winning

00:58headers in the box, and when balls are coming in and it's tough and it's dogged, you need

01:02someone to step up, and I thought he did that.

01:04Yeah, look, we were wondering who the goalkeeper was going to be today to start the game, and

01:08it was Sam Johnson, and Forest scored early, and you've got to think that he'll be disappointed

01:13with his par in the goal, as will Totte.

01:15Yeah, the cross comes in, and of all players in the Forest team to leave three from a set

01:20piece, Chris Wood is the last one to leave three from a set piece.

01:24Surely, surely, that's the one person you have to mark, you know where he's going to

01:28be.

01:29Exactly, he goes in at the far post, Totte gets caught underneath it, tries to react,

01:33and he can do very little really to get anywhere near Chris Wood. The header itself is quite

01:38tame, considering the space and time that he did have, and to me it looks like it goes

01:46through Johnson a little bit. I think he would have seen it late, definitely, but I think

01:51he could have done better with it, so he'll be disappointed. However, I did feel he redeemed

01:54himself with a free-kick save from Morgan's White in the first half, that second save

01:59from Wood in the second half was really a big one. An overall decent enough debut for

02:05the goalkeeper who is sort of bedding in, a couple of errors with the ball at his feet

02:09but nothing too dramatic, so okay, steady enough.

02:13Three bookings in the first half, and really a referee who struggled to get control of

02:17the game. You felt that Matthias Cunha was probably bubbling under at that stage where

02:20he looked threatening, but at the same time you go into half-time, you think this could

02:24go either way. There was a big incident in that second half, wasn't there, where there

02:29was a handball, we all thought it was a handball, the referee, who I thought was poor throughout

02:33really for both sides, had the whistle in his mouth, was just about to blow, doesn't,

02:39VAR looks at it, doesn't get overturned, but I think we both think that if the referee

02:43gives that, and Gary O'Neill was absolutely furious that it wasn't given, they're not

02:48going to overturn it, that would have been a penalty for Walsh, and then could we talk

02:51to you about a very different result?

02:52Yeah, obviously with going into this season, they're trying to be more lenient when it

02:56comes to those situations, officiating and from a VAR standpoint, which I think is a

03:01good thing for the game. I think there were some silly ones last season that were given.

03:05However, last season there were some silly ones that weren't given that should have

03:08been. That to me...

03:10That was definitely given last season.

03:11That was definitely given last season, that one, and that to me, that's a penalty, I think.

03:14I know it's hit on the back of the elbow, but it's still changing the fly of the ball.

03:18It's more, I think it's more his hand, to be honest. As the ball's coming over his shoulder,

03:23Dawson's making the run on wood to try and get towards it, his hand comes out way to

03:27the side, way above him, catches him. I think it's flush on the hand, but I might be wrong,

03:31but it's certainly from a very obvious handball position. And you're right, Simon Hopo, whistle,

03:36looks...

03:37We're just about to blow you, let's see it.

03:39Literally doing this, looks this way, and puts the whistle down and runs as the game

03:43is playing on. Wolves go absolutely apoplectic, Gary O'Neill is losing it on the sidelines,

03:48he gets booked for his troubles.

03:49Second yellow card of the season for Gary O'Neill.

03:50Second yellow card of the season in three Premier League games, which is not ideal.

03:53No.

03:54I believe it's three...

03:55Trying to keep up with Giselle Gomez.

03:56Yeah. I believe it's three for a touchline ban.

03:59So what, he's got 30... 35 games.

04:03To me, it's one of those, if you're following Wolves, you think it's a penalty, if you're

04:09following Forrest, you probably think it's not, but I think it's a penalty.

04:12At the same time, look, the last 15, 20 minutes was a little bit hairy scary, 10 minutes of

04:16injury time as well. And in the midfield, I felt they lost the battle, they lost a little

04:20bit of their shape, you know, Mario Lamine and Giselle Gomez, I don't think have got

04:23into their stride yet this season. Tommy Durrell came in, helped things up a lot, we saw Andre

04:28make his debut as well.

04:29I thought Andre actually did relatively well, coming on in the 85th minute, so he had, with

04:3310 minutes of added time, surprisingly had 15 minutes of football to play.

04:36And I actually thought he broke up the game quite well at the time when Wolves really

04:39needed it.

04:40So I think he did OK.

04:41I agree with you, Doyle coming off the bench was probably Wolves' best midfielder, and

04:45he came on, what, the 59th was it, I think it was?

04:4859th, yeah.

04:49Probably Wolves' best midfielder of the day.

04:50Giselle Gomez doesn't look up to speed at the moment, I think he's struggling a little

04:54bit.

04:55He seems to be just a step off it, behind the pace of the game.

04:59Mario Lamine is working his socks off.

05:01I thought he actually did quite well first half, but same as he did against Chelsea,

05:05he did it again today.

05:07He's charging beyond the play, he's getting so far forward at times, the Wolves are leaving

05:12such massive gaps, so open in midfield.

05:14He did it again today, and there was a couple of times Wolves got lucky when forwards were

05:17breaking forward.

05:18That's my biggest concern, and he was absolutely out on his feet at the end, because he's putting

05:21so much effort in.

05:22I do think there needs to be slightly more discipline.

05:25Totti Gomez left back today, and Ryan Aitonori left wing, what do you make of that?

05:30Aitonori was definitely better, definitely more involved in the game, had a decent enough

05:34game from an attacking standpoint.

05:36Totti had a difficult first half in some respects.

05:40Less glaring errors, but just looks fragile at the moment.

05:44Looks like there's an error coming, looks like there's going to be a misplaced pass,

05:48something going wrong.

05:49I think he was better second half.

05:51He didn't have an impact on Wolves, aside from the goal itself.

05:56Didn't have an impact on Wolves potentially losing the game, but I don't think he was

06:00necessarily helping Wolves get over the line at the same time, if that makes sense.

06:04He's not quite in form at the moment, and I think he's a very good footballer, but he's

06:07just not quite there.

06:08Jürgen Strömmel didn't really get into the game today, did he?

06:11Disappointed with him really, because he just looked very isolated.

06:15It wasn't even necessarily the physical battle, because he just held his own in that regard.

06:20He just went through the motions, just could not get into the game.

06:24A couple of times the ball came into him, didn't hold it up well enough.

06:27A couple of times it came into his feet, and very heavy touches, losing the ball too easily.

06:33Just a little bit off the pace.

06:35Jürgen Strömmel, Daniel Pedentz not in the squad today, and we fully expect them not

06:38to be Wolves players come the start of next week.

06:41Pedentz for certain, unless anything last minute goes wrong, but that will go through.

06:46About £5 million, £5 million, roughly, that will be.

06:51Jose Sarr is one that is creeping closer to a Saudi move with their window closed on Monday.

06:56Wasn't involved today.

06:59I believe he made himself unavailable with injury, whether that is accurate.

07:05We'll speak to Gary O'Neill afterwards.

07:09We don't expect Jose Sarr to be here.

07:12We expect it to be Johnson, Bentley and King.

07:15We'll see what happens between now and Monday.

07:17The good news is Wolves are off the mark.

07:19Nottingham Price 1, Wolves 1, post-match reaction.

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